During Great Outdoors Month, help your insides by getting outside..

• Park it. Exposure to the outdoors can boost immunity, lower blood pressure, and even diminish depression. In fact, the National Recreation and Park Association found that Americans who visit parks frequently need fewer doctor visits. You can boost your health by spending 20 minutes feeding ducks, reading under a tree, or simply traipsing barefoot across warm sand.

• Move it. Research shows that the synergetic sights, sounds, and smells we experience outdoors can boost cognitive awareness and aid cardiovascular health, and you compound these benefits when you exercise in nature. Spend 30 minutes walking, jogging, or hiking where foliage abounds — whether it’s a beachside path, waterfall trail, or an inner-city greenbelt.

• Plant it. A green thumb strengthens your whole hand — and that’s not all. Researchers at Kansas State University found that gardening not only enhances finger and wrist mobility among senior citizens, but decreases stress and raises self-esteem. Cultivating the soil can enhance your sense of purpose — when you tend to a living, growing thing, you’re motivated to sustain its life along with your own. Let your gardening efforts pay forward, too — give a homegrown basket of produce to a friend.